Moving Goods with Maglev Makes Sense

Summary


Magnetic levitation sounds more like a spiritual experience than something for a railyard, but it could become a reality at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Soon.

The challenge is how to move cargo from the ports to a transfer facility a few miles away. Trucks are dirty, noisy and clog up the freeways. Maglev, as it's called, is clean, quiet and uses its own elevated guideway.

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Moving Goods with Maglev Makes Sense

Maglev is a technology that's been around awhile as an interesting experiment in public transportation but used in only a few place...

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